And somewhere Chris DeGarmo is laughing, although both sides claim they're on good terms with him.

What makes this even funnier is that Parker Lundgren, the guitarist in the non-Tate 'ryche, was married to the aforementioned fan club-running stepdaughter for a few months. Judging by where he is now I think it's safe to say we know whose side he's on. Geoff must have absolutely loved that he was throwing these out in the crowd too:

Mikey1969:mjbok: Operation: Mindcrime is one of my favorite albums of all time. Saw QR on their Building Empires tour when they did OM beginning to end. It was amazing.

OM2 is kind of shiatty.

I love Operation Mindcrime, and I'm bummed that I missed the shows when they would come through and play the full album. That said, I haven't heard anything from the band that really made me want to hear it again since Empire.

OM2 is like Caddyshack 2 or Blues Brothers 2000: something that has no reason to exist.

I always liked Queensryche because it was the gateway band for musicians who had no idea what prog really was to call their own music progressive which of course led us to the Trans Siberian Orchestra, one of the signs of the apocalypse.

Yeah, I've heard about this.. I heard one of the new albums, sounded alright, but most of the 'reviews' were 1 star, complete with rants about how no one should buy it, and everyone should support the REAL Queensryche.. I don't remember which was which.